Chuck Norris Jokes

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Not a mockup — this is what Chuck Norris Jokes actually returned when we verified it on 23 Oct 2026 (in 1418 ms).

{
  "categories": [],
  "created_at": "2020-01-05 13:42:19.576875",
  "icon_url": "https://api.chucknorris.io/img/avatar/chuck-norris.png",
  "id": "Z2kX2v9WQSev8Z4MY4xkIA",
  "updated_at": "2020-01-05 13:42:19.576875",
  "url": "https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/Z2kX2v9WQSev8Z4MY4xkIA",
  "value": "Whenever Chuck Norris sees a world touched by war, thousands of soldiers dying and mortars exploding, guns guns and more guns are firing....He really just wants to nuke the crap outta it."
}

💻 Copy-paste code

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// Chuck Norris Jokes — no build step, no library. Just fetch.
const res = await fetch("https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

# Chuck Norris Jokes with Python requests
import requests

r = requests.get("https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random")
print(r.status_code)
print(r.json())

# Chuck Norris Jokes from your terminal
curl "https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random"

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